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An amateur collection - the result of a small addiction that I developed over the past year ... (it is also a "poor man's collection" :) ) This is a cheap, homage-type watch to late 60's - early 70's disposable watches from the Vietnam War era: IMO this one is like the AK47 of watches...

Perhaps this news has been mentioned, but again it seems so appropriate to RO:HOS that it probably needs to be stacked beside every player and mapper's keyboard for reference... :D The trilogy on Stalingrad is in the making by the well-known Ostfront historian David Glantz. Volume 1 of the...

Two episodes in a series of podcasts called "Ghosts of the Ostfront" are available from "Hardcore History" [http://www.dancarlin.com/hhredir.php?show=Show-28---Ghosts-of-the-Ostfront-II] Part 1 (about 1 hour) deals with Barbarossa and part 2 (about 1.5 hrs) up to Moscow '41. Plans for part 3...

With an exclusively Stalingrad scenario approaching in the next game, perhaps it is worth while to look about and see what is already available. :) Here the existing stock and custom maps and a guess as to their location: Some maps may be mispositioned or missing here and perhaps dates can...

ROOST seems to stay consistently at 1000 players-a-day on the Steam Stats site, which IMO is pretty awesome and proves its playability. Looking at today's stats, it is interesting to see that except for a few new games and demos, 3 year-old ROOST tops the non-Valve game list! If anybody knows...

There are 2 movies based on Sajer's book forthcoming: The first is a Polish one called Zapomniany Żołnierz. Some clips from the making of and teasers, e.g.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29CU7HdSREM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMlFnereeIs Full playlist of 10 clips...

englishrussia.com is showing 85 photographs (many well-known) of the Eastern front which have probably all been colorized. It does offer a different experience when looking at these again, though. http://englishrussia.com/?p=2239 example:

Having seen the Valkyrie cinema trailer for the first time yesterday, I was wondering if perhaps anybody knows which tank was used to represent the Panzer IV in the film? The tracks on that tank are not the original ...

This is a digitization of the original booklet. Perhaps someone would like to offer a translation of the funniest ones into English? 'This little humor book was published by the "Voelkischer Beobachter" newspaper in late 1944 and features funny anecdotes, poems, and other humor from soldiers on...

Perhaps this site has been referred to before - I could not find the reference. Literally thousands of photographs of the Eastern front were collected and posted by an enthusiast. http://community.webshots.com/user/summitphotographics For me it took 2 days to go through on of the albums...

A seemingly interesting DVD on the Eastern Front has recently (20 November 2007) been released: "Over 90 min of rarely before seen interviews, documentaries, war footage and more from private libraries of veterans from WWII." - http://files.dvdnote.com/pdfs/07-015.pdf - region 1 NTSC only...

It was called an "alert box": :D

BGF is the first WWII mod for BF2 to release (tomorrow 30 November). And it is set on the Eastern Front! Looking forward to this one ...

It is common knowledge that about 5000 or 6000 of the about 90 000 Germans captured at Stalingrad, returned to Germany after the war. What is harder to believe is that only 18 000 of them reached a Soviet POW camp alive: The prisoners from Stalingrad had to march in a zig zag through the far...

Some interesting videos of Far Cry 2 which is due next year: http://www.farcry2-hq.com/videos.htm In addition to what is mentioned on the page, look out for other "realism" touches like M249 jam animation, RPG 7 damage at long range, grass fire from flame thrower, grass deformation when...

My search on the forums didn't show any reference to this, but it may have been mentioned before. Between 1942 and 1945 the American director Frank Capra co-directed a 7-part propaganda series called "Why We Fight", aimed at the American forces and public. The first in the series won an academy...

Some clips from the classic 1959 film: http://www.rzm.com/videos/stalingrad_clip1.mov http://www.rzm.com/videos/stalingrad_clip2.mov http://www.rzm.com/videos/stalingrad_clip3.mov http://www.rzm.com/videos/stalingrad_clip4.mov

While the first planned scenario for FH2 is the Western desert, it seems a breathtaking map of the Crete conflict may also be added. Screenshots to drool over, here.

The garage at home yielded a dusty (*sneeze*) 1980 comic book called "AD2000" with an episode of a story titled "Fiends of the Eastern Front". Recently (2006) the whole series of episodes was released as a graphic novel (I love Carlos Ezquerra's drawings!)...

We often hear that the Ferdinand being only equipped with a main gun proved to be a shortcoming during close-quarters combat against infantry at Kursk, but the workaround by the crews is surprising: "...Major Noak's Battalion 654, who carried an MG-42 on board and, when things got really bad...